Van Vorst Park

Van Vorst Park is an upper income neighborhood in the Historic Downtown of Jersey City, New Jersey. Named for the prominent Van Vorst family (which produced 1860-1862 mayor Cornelius Van Vorst), it was a township of Hudson County from 1841 to 1851, when it was annexed to Jersey City. It contains nineteenth century rowhouses and brownstones, and it is home to the James J. Ferris High School and the medical center.